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Colossians 3:15 (WEB)
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Fathers and councils · 5

John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 25
“For this cause Paul also said, “Be ye thankful.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 15.
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Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28
“For my own part I would pray most earnestly that the good God will make His peace rule in the hearts of all, so that these men who are swollen with pride and set in battle array against us may be calmed by the Spirit of meekness and of love; and that if they have…” — editor's note: cf. Col. iii. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount I.2Book I
“From a kingdom of this sort brought to a condition of thorough peace and order, the prince of this world is cast out, who rules where there is perversity and disorder.” — editor's note: The “peacemakers” not only establish peace within themselves as Augustin, encouraged by the Latin word, explains, but diffuse peace around about them,—heal the…
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.6Book IV
“And let the peace of God reign in your hearts, to which also ye are called in one body; and be thankful,” ye who, while still in the body, like the just men of old, enjoy impassibility and tranquillity of soul.” — editor's note: Col. iii. 12, 14, 15.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.7Book IV
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which ye are called in one body; and be thankful.”” — editor's note: Col. iii. 12–15. [Again let us note this Catholic democracy of the Christian brotherhood (see p. 416, supra), for which indeed we should be thankful as…
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